Improve Access to Quality Health Care

Seven health centres and a district hospital serve a population of around 100 000. In order to improve the quality of health services throughout the district, the district’s health committees and the municipal administration were strengthened. The introduction of an incentive system managed by these two authorities has led to increased staff presence in the health centres and quality improvement of services. The number of professionally attended births rose steadily, but remained at 1 900 in the last year of the project, still well below the target figure of 3 400. An additional 1 200 home births were reported in the same year. The prenatal examinations remain a challenge. Special attention was also given to tropical neglected diseases. In the last two years of the project, 475 cases each of Buruli ulcer or leprosy were discovered and treated.